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Simandou: Mysterious corruption charges

The Simandou mining project in Guinea has produced fallout in the United States. This weekend a 50-year-old French national, Frederic [...] (337 words)

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Soros' footprint everywhere on Simandou project

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Shadowy battle over Guinea's iron ore mountain

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